R
rookiee
Active Member
Full Member
- Messages
- 198
- Reaction score
- 12
Ok, I'm a small lab investing most of my money into knowledge and less in equipment. Since I own a 3shape's D700 and outsourcing milling I started to think about milling machine. And we are not German market so investing 100k eur or so is out of the picture. On my wishlist was 350i from Imes Icore but all together it's still 60k plus with taxes of course. Almost the same price is Wieland's milling machine. In our labs we mostly do metal ceramics and e.max, zirconia mostly just for individual abutments and where e.max is not an option. Lately we mill more and more wax and then we press it. Metal is outsourced and made via SLM at acceptable prices.
Based on this situation I would need a simple machine for dry milling I assume, wax, PMMA and zirconia (we would never mill e.max, maybe sometimes would mill CoCr). Imes and Wieland are my favorites because of support since we are small market I would never chooose unknown company for a 1 or 2k lover price. But the problem is that all small machines which are kind of affordable for me are 4 axis. Add an axis and 20k plus will drain my pocket.
So in your opinion, from practical perspective, how important is having 5 axis? What does it mean in real lab life lack of one axis on your milling machine. If it's to tricky then I would rather save money for another year or so and buy one time and not to get screwed in the...you know what. So?
Based on this situation I would need a simple machine for dry milling I assume, wax, PMMA and zirconia (we would never mill e.max, maybe sometimes would mill CoCr). Imes and Wieland are my favorites because of support since we are small market I would never chooose unknown company for a 1 or 2k lover price. But the problem is that all small machines which are kind of affordable for me are 4 axis. Add an axis and 20k plus will drain my pocket.
So in your opinion, from practical perspective, how important is having 5 axis? What does it mean in real lab life lack of one axis on your milling machine. If it's to tricky then I would rather save money for another year or so and buy one time and not to get screwed in the...you know what. So?